US Patent 9683412 Downhole expandable control line connector

An example wellbore system includes a wellbore at least partially lined with casing and having an upper control line extending on an exterior of the casing and conveying one or more first communication media, a casing nipple provided on the casing and defining a nipple profile, an upper control line connector coupled to the casing nipple and communicably coupled to the upper control line, a connector assembly arranged on a wellbore tubing extendable within the wellbore and defining an anchor profile engageble with the nipple profile, and a lower control line connector coupled to the connector assembly and communicably coupled to a lower control line extending along the wellbore tubing and conveying one or more second communication media, wherein the one or more first and second communication media are communicably coupled by radially expanding and rotating the lower control line connector with respect to the upper control line connector and thereby mating the upper and lower control line connectors.